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Measuring Public Speaking Anxiety: Self-report, behavioral, and physiological
2021
Self-reports are typically used to assess public speaking anxiety. In this study, we examined whether self-report, observer report, and behavioral and physiological reactivity were associated with each other during a speech challenge task. A total of 95 university students completed a self-report measure of public speaking anxiety before and after the speech challenge. Speech duration (i.e., behavioral measure), physiological reactivity, as well as speech performance evaluated by the participants and observers were also recorded. The results suggest that self-reported public speaking anxiety predicts speech duration, as well as speech quality, as rated by the participants themselves and ob…
Am I Irrelevant? Does the Finnish business community prefer native or non-native speaking English teachers?
2009
Tämä laadullinen tutkimus tuo yhden näkökulman globaaliin keskusteluun siitä ovatko englantia äidinkielenään puhuvat opettajat, omilla ääntämis- ja kielenkäyttötavoillaan, tarpeellisia opiskeltaessa englantia vieraana kielenä (EFL). Tutkimus keskittyi suomalaisten yritysmaailmassa olevien aikuisten mielipiteisiin, käsityksiin ja kokemuksiin englanninkielen opiskelusta sekä suomalaisten (ei-natiiven) että englantia äidinkielenään puhuvien opettajien (natiivien) johdolla. Tutkimukseen osallistujat edustivat sekä eri ammattikuntia että eri maantieteellisiä alueita ympäri Suomea. Tutkimuksella oli kolme selkeää tavoitetta. Ensiksi tavoitteena oli tutkia, kokivatko osallistujat saavansa enemmän…
La qualité de l'éducation de base en Afrique francophone : contexte, constat et facteurs d'efficacité
2003
03050 - Coll. "Cahiers de l'Académie des Sciences morales et politiques"; L'auteur s'interroge sur l'aspect qualitatif de l'école primaire africaine francophone. Trois questions principales sont abordées : i) dans quel contexte général faut-il apprécier la qualité des systèmes ? ii) quels résultats sur la qualité des apprentissages des élèves ? et iii) sur quels facteurs peut-on agir pour améliorer la qualité de l'école ? C'est ce dernier point qui sert de conclusion.
Foreign language speaking anxiety: a case study in Secondary EFL students.
2021
En las últimas décadas, la ansiedad en una lengua extranjera (ALE) ha sido reconocida como una emoción en una situación específica que dificulta potencialmente el aprendizaje de un idioma. Este estudio ofrece un análisis completo de cómo la ansiedad afecta a la enseñanza de inglés como lengua extranjera (ELE) y a sus alumnos/as en Educación Secundaria. Los objetivos de esta investigación fueron, en primer lugar, examinar cómo reaccionan y se sienten los/las estudiantes al enfrentarse a situaciones de habla extranjera y, en segundo lugar, determinar cuáles de estas situaciones les provocan más o menos ansiedad. 28 alumnos/as de ELE de 3º y 4º de ESO participaron en una investigación mixta a …
The challenge for equity and excellence: Evidence for future successful action in bilingual Finland
2018
In 2013, the authors prepared a report on educational excellence and equity in Finland based on PISA 2009 data and asked the question “Could Finland achieve both excellence and equality goals in the coming decade? Five years later, this report re-examines the challenge faced by Finland in light of recent PISA results. The Finnish school system, both the Finnish and Swedish speaking components, have consistently ranked at the top of the list of OECD countries. However, Finland’s performance has been dropping compared to previous years, while it failed to keep pace with performance improvements in other countries. Simply working harder along the same path will no longer work. Therefore, this …
La perception phonémique en français des apprenants polonophones (le cas des voyelles antérieures de moyenne aperture : [e][ɛ])
2017
The perception of sounds of a foreign tongue influences the quality of comprehension and speaking in the language, as well as learning how to read and write properly. The differentiation and identification of sounds enables the development of aural-verbal memory, subsequently associating particular sound patterns with particular meanings. In other words, a developed perception of sounds ensures an efficient communication in a foreign language. Since learners perceive foreign sounds with varied proficiency, the teacher should recognize the difficulties and undertake remedial measures to facilitate learning progress. This article aims to present an educational tool, currently in development, …
Pour une correction phonétique personnalisée en FLE ou de la remédiation "sur mesure"
2017
Herein we would like to rise up a concern of the error correction of pronunciation in French as a Foreign Language. The results of the experimental acoustic analysis (concerning the values of acoustic vowel formants F1 and F2) enabled to precisely specify the difficulties of the experiment’s participants in a field of French vocal system. In relation to the differences of vocal systems of French and Polish language we suggest custom solutions on a didactic level. Based on verbo-tonal method for phonetic integration the error correction activities had been individually elaborated for each participant.
Anticipatory autonomic response to a public speaking task in women
2002
The aim of this research was to study anticipatory autonomic responses their relationship to trait anxiety. Twenty-three women prepared an evaluated speech (S-condition) and 22 women an evaluated essay (W-condition). Heart rate (HR), finger pulse volume (FPV) and skin conductance were recorded before, during and after preparation of the task and during task performance; state-anxiety was evaluated before and after the task. In the total sample, state-anxiety was higher in the S- than in W-condition and this anxiety increase was accompanied by FPV reductions. However, when the sample was split according to trait anxiety scores, HR during preparation and increases of state-anxiety were greate…
Borders on the old maps of Jizera Mountain
2019
Abstract Old maps, mainly from the period between 1890 and 1940, have been collected in the framework of the project “Old Maps of the Jizera Mountains”. These maps provide us with a complex picture, mainly of tourism, in this currently Czech–Polish territory. The territory of the Jizera Mountains was inhabited mainly by a German-speaking population on both sides of the border until 1945. Yet it is interesting to examine how the border between the two states – in those times Czechoslovakia and Germany, now Czechia and Poland – was illustrated on these old maps. This article argues that the border was not perceived as a barrier as such until later on, mainly due to the ethnic change in the bo…
Testing a Proactive Model of Successful Aging Among Older Adults in Costa Rica and Spain.
2021
The purpose of this study is to examine successful aging among Spanish-speaking older adults in Costa Rica and in Spain using the proactive framework proposed by Kahana et al. (2014). More specifically, we hypothesized that older adults’ life satisfaction would be positively associated with the frequency and perceived level of social support, spirituality/having purpose in life, and the use of proactive physical, cognitive, and social self-care behaviors. Our results confirmed these hypotheses, not only for the overall group of participants, but also separately for older adults in Costa Rica and in Spain. The present study contributes to the literature of successful aging among older adults…